Thursday, December 20, 2012

Mujhe bacha lo...main jeena chahti hoon!!!

"Mujhebacha lo...main jeenachahtihoon (Save me...I want to
live)," is what the 23-year-YOUNG gang rape victim by bus driver and his accomplices’ in presence of her male
friend in a moving bus between 9-10 pm on busy roads of Delhi told her
family! She is still incapable of speaking; she
also made enquiries about her family and the condition of her male friend
through scribbled notes last night. I hope these are not her last words or last
unfulfilled wish.

Though her condition has deteriorated in the past 24 hours -
doctors completely removed her intestine as it had turned gangrenous - her
family is still hoping that she will win over the odds and survive. She is suffering
from excruciating pain. Trauma. Doctors described her as a fighter.

Her father works with a private firm as a loader at IGI Airport.
Her father told Doctor that - They had spent all their savings on her education
and were hoping she would financially support the family. They were hoping that
after her internship, she would get a good job. And will run the family. She
has two younger brothers – one of 18 and another of 20. With following incident
the family lost everything.

A girl and her male friend are waiting for a bus to arrive on a
crowded square so as they can go their desired place. A tinted glass, curtain
fitted bus; which is not allowed for transport purpose (and it was also used as
school bus) arrives. This girl and her male friend climb over it. He siton
front sit on left side and she on rear sit. Both were completely unaware of
what they are going to face in next hour. That will change their life, their
family’s life, police officers patrolling in that area, ministers, media, or even
law bodies. After picking up them they were the only (except six persons) in
that bus. One of those six abused her male friend. He defended them. Following it
those goons hit him with an iron bar. Traumatised him. And then gang-raped the
girl. This was not the end of this cruel act. The girl’s vagina was bombarded with
same iron bar; even tucking it in her vagina upto her small intestine and large
intestine was discredited. Then they threw them out of running bus; naked. Their
bodies remain there for next one hour, being a tourist place for the walking-by
people. Temperature was as low as 12 degree. No one even helped them or
informed about this incident.

Awww!! This will certainly bring thorns on anyone’s body. Primary
requirement – They must be a human. But I don’t think those six rapists were
any close to it.

Above incident happened in Delhi. The prime capital of India, second
fastest developing economy. Predicted to overtake China in 2025. With world's
largest standing volunteer army. Delhi beingsecond metropolis in India after
Mumbai and sixth in world. Spread in over an area of 1,484 km2
(573 sq mi). And then this inadvertent incident!!

Rape 'kills' a person while forcing her
to continue to live with 'shame' - a concept which has been embedded in social
'values'. It is a unique situation in which the victim herself is lead to felt ‘guilt’
further. The reason perhaps lies in the patriarchal society to such an extreme
where females have been considered as 'objects' made for 'use' of males. That
is the reason why many victims of such crimes are made to feel as 'hated'.

Society is getting sordid. Barbarism is catching in roots. Many of
us will agree or disagree to it. But still ask yourself. I remember a quote by
Mahatma Gandhi –

Be the change
that you wish to see in the world.

These things can’t be simply prevented by harsh laws or strict
police actions. The cancer has penetrated deep in society. The underlined fact is
we as a person has to change ourselves. And that starts from changing ourselves.
It includes very simple practices. Stop using MC, BC. Stop verbing assaulting
words after “teri maa ki”, “teribehen ki”. Stop taking a girl as “maal”. This makes us no different from
those six persons; only extent is on lesser scale. She is not voluptuous. Instead respect her for who she is. What
she stands for and what she actually deserves. Morals. Etiquettes. Follow them.

And thing won’t either change by signing petitions on ‘Causes’ or
any poll or changing your display picture to ‘black dot’ neither by writing any
blog.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday cleared the state government's
proposal to set up five fast-track trial courts for speedy trial in rape cases,
even as it made it clear that it would continuously monitor the gang-rape case
and gave the police two days to furnish a status report on the probe.
Women can call 100 to seek assistance to go home at night Cops to crack down on
all vehicles with tinted glasses, curtains 24-hour police cover for areas
around malls, discos, eateries, cinemas. More security between 8pm and 1am. After
8pm, PCR vans to patrol main roads around Metro stations, major colonies. Number
of PCRs to be raised from 635 to 940. 5% staff from specialized police units to
be deployed on night duty till 1am. All police vans to have GPS units. Anybody
looking for a vehicle in such an area will be asked if they need any help. They
can also stop PCR vehicles for help.

1,300 roads need to be illuminated. While some are being fitted
with streetlights, cops are planning another security audit. Commercial buses
have to keep their lights on while plying at night. Cops to undertake
verification of drivers, staff of buses.

These all steps after a total of 21,397 rape incidents were
reported nationwide only in year 2009. A study undertaken by the South
India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring stated a woman is raped
every 34 minutes in India.

Rape is the fastest growing crime in India with a 700 percent
growth rate since 1971 the NCRB estimates that rape incidences per day have
risen from just 7 per day to 53. Of the 414 rape cases filed in Delhi regarded
as the rape capital of India only 34.6 percent of the 414 cases produced
convictions. Even after this in less than 24 hour period after the gang rape of
the victim at least 2 girls under the age of 18 were gang raped with one of
them being murdered.

Basic preventive measures that girls are asked to follow. Have a
male friend accompany you. Ineffective. Don’t go late at night (8pm won’t be
called as that LATE). Crowded places are safe zone. Feeble. Cover-up. Very few
girls might have burkas. India is the country where instead of pounding the wound it is
subjected to home-made recipes. Sonai Gandhi and Sheila Dixit blames girls for
this (Pretty right. They will never be subjected to such calamity. You need to
be full of wrinkles, traverse in red-light vehicle and certainly I doubt they
have never been wooed by any male in their lifetime). So, atleast they are
safe. Barbarism should not be
answered with barbarism.

Many are demanding for executionto them. But I would demand for rational, strict but civilized action. Don’t
know if every rape case should be executed as capital execution; but these probably
deserve it!!
"rarest of the rare" is the basic criteria for capital execution. Which I don't think this case probably comes under. Strict rules can surely be implemented and then executed.

Hope atleast after this
bombastic outrage the Government will take the issue on priority basis and women
molestation will be reduced significantly.

If today we won’t,
then it never will be!

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[P.S. For information
gathering WikiPedia is primarily used along with TOI with few other websites.]

The same post was published in Speaking Tree (spirituality blog by Times Of India) and it ranked fifth most read in world in two days!! :)

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